| 词条 | William Ross (Unionist politician) |
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|honorific-prefix = |name = William Ross |honorific-suffix = |image = |constituency_MP = East Londonderry Londonderry (Feb 1974-1983) |parliament = |majority = |term_start = 28 February 1974 |term_end = 14 May 2001 |predecessor = Robin Chichester-Clark |successor = Gregory Campbell |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|02|4|df=yes}} |birth_place = Derry, Northern Ireland |death_date = |death_place = |restingplace = |birthname = |nationality = British |party = Traditional Unionist Voice UUP (pre 2007) |spouse = Christine Ross |relations = |children = 4 |residence = Dungiven |alma_mater = |occupation = Farmer |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |religion = Anglican |signature = |website = }} William Ross (born 4 February 1936) is an Ulster loyalist politician from Northern Ireland. He served as the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Member of Parliament for Londonderry (later East Londonderry) from February 1974 until 2001. He was one of the UUP members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. For some years he was a member of the Conservative Monday Club (which followed the Tory tradition of being Conservative and Unionist). In September 1982 he was chairman of the Club's Northern Ireland Committee when it published a Policy Paper entitled Proposals for a Constitutional Settlement [for Ulster]. As Chief Whip of the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party from 1987 to 1995, in an attempt to derail multi-party talks initiated by Peter Brooke (the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland), in February 1990 Ross unsuccessfully introduced a Private Member's Bill, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Amendment) Bill, to provide that laws for Northern Ireland may not be made by (non-amendable) Orders-in-Council but by (amendable) Bill introduced into the United Kingdom Parliament, and repeatedly called on the then Conservative Government to implement its 1979 Conservative General Election Manifesto commitment to "establish one or more elected regional councils with a wide range of powers over local services" (in Northern Ireland), which had been drafted by the then UUP Leader Jim (later Lord) Molyneaux and adopted by the late Airey Neave (then Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) in 1978. Following Jim (later Lord) Molyneaux's retirement as UUP Leader, Ross unsuccessfully stood for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party in September 1995 and, although a close confidant and supporter of Molyneaux throughout the latter's leadership of the UUP, quickly became a very vocal opponent of the policies and style of newly-elected UUP Leader David Trimble. In June 2008, it was announced that he had been made the party president of Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV).[1] William Ross stood for the TUV in the 2010 UK General Election in the East Londonderry Constituency.[2] References1. ^We'll bring the DUP to account, The News Letter, 4 June 2008 2. ^Veteran UUP MP is TUV candidate, BBC, 7 April 2010 External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Londonderry | years = 1974–1983 }}{{s-non | reason = constituency abolished }}{{s-new | constituency }}{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for East Londonderry | years = 1983–2001 }}{{s-aft | after=Gregory Campbell }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, William}}{{NorthernIreland-UK-MP-stub}} 13 : 1936 births|Living people|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Londonderry constituencies (since 1922)|Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Anglicans from Northern Ireland|Traditional Unionist Voice politicians|UK MPs 1974|UK MPs 1974–79|UK MPs 1979–83|UK MPs 1983–87|UK MPs 1987–92|UK MPs 1992–97|UK MPs 1997–2001 |
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